Wavelength tunable broadband source based on Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser applicable to FD-OCT system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6429, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Eom, Tae Joong ^a   Choi, Hyeong Gyu ^a   Sung, Jae Hee ^a   Kee, Chul Sik ^a   Ko, Do Kyeong ^a   Lee, Jongmin ^a   Choi, Eun Seo ^b  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biological imaging; Fs laser; Optical coherence tomography; Swept optical source; Tunable filter

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVELENGTH;

BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; FS-LASER; REPETITION RATE; SPECTRAL LINEWIDTH; SWEPT OPTICAL SOURCE; TUNABLE FILTER;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 34248549498     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.704228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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